Daily Life During The Black Death by Joseph P. Byrne

Author:Joseph P. Byrne [Byrne, Joseph P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Crowds of plague-stricken people are coming here, and it is impossible to stem the tide of pestilence with inexpert people who are not used to witnessing death, and it will grow all the more as the doctors’ own fear grows . . . Now we have to [ensure] that all hospital doctors know how to deal with this disease and to assist patients . . .

Finally, in 1530 a number of Geneva’s pest-house attendants were accused of deliberately spreading plague by smearing a plague ointment on healthy people’s doors. One confessed under torture; two were tortured with hot pincers and then beheaded; two women had their hands cut off in front of their “victims’” houses before being executed; the priest Father Dufour was first defrocked and then executed by the civil authorities.

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